Speaking to reporters on the South Lawn of the White House, Trump continued to argue that his July phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was "perfect." Then he made a flurry of very different arguments -- over the course of 74 total words. The whistleblower who filed a formal complaint about the call said that the White House officials who gave him (highly accurate) information "were deeply disturbed by what had transpired in the phone call." The White House has acknowledged that it stored a transcript of the call in a highly classified system. A senior official said in a September statement to CNN that this decision came at the direction of National Security Council attorneys.

Source: CNN November 04, 2019 13:52 UTC